Physics – Optics
Scientific paper
Jan 2011
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011aas...21725416l&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #217, #254.16; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 43, 2011
Physics
Optics
Scientific paper
Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) was installed on Hubble Space Telescope (HST) in December 1993 during Servicing Mission 1 by the crew of Shuttle Mission STS-61. WFPC2 replaced Wide Field Planetary Camera 1 (WFPC1), providing improved UV performance, more advanced detectors, better contamination control, and its own corrective optics. After 16 years of exceptional service, WFPC2 was retired in May 2009 during Servicing Mission 4, when it was removed from HST in order to allow for the installation of Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3).
WFPC2 was carried back to Earth in the shuttle bay by the crew of Shuttle Mission STS-125. In a joint investigation by Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) and Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), the Selectable Optical Filter Assembly (SOFA) of WFPC2 was extracted and the filter wheels removed and examined for any on-orbit changes. The filters were inspected, photographed and scanned with a spectrophotometer at GSFC. The data have been analyzed at STScI with a view towards understanding how prolonged exposure to the HST space environment affected the filters and what the resultant impacts are to WFPC2 calibrations.
We will summarize our results from these post-SM4 laboratory studies, including a comparison of pre- to post-mission filter throughput measurements, evaluations of the UV filter red leaks, and assessment of the condition of the filter coatings.
Baggett Sylvia
Biretta John
Boucarut Ray
Del Hoyo J.
Lian Lim Pey
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